“He hated to think of his own life stretching ahead of him that way, a long succession of days and nights that were fine - not good, not bad, not great, not lousy, not exciting, not anything.”

“They don't actually want you to do your own thing, not unless it's their thing too.”

“The beautiful part of writing is that you don't have to get it right the first time, unlike, say, a brain surgeon.”

“The possibility that hope comes out of hopelessness and that the opposite of things carry the seeds of birth - love out of hate, good out of evil. Didn't flowers grow out of dirt?”

“The cheese stands aloneThe cheese stands aloneHeigh-ho the merry-oThe cheese stands alone”

“You see Carter, people are two things: greedy and cruel. So we have a perfect set-up here. The greed part - a kid pays a buck for a chance to win a hundred. Plus fifty boxes of chocolates. The crue...”

“I can't bear literary snobbery.”

“They never opened the door which leads to the soul.”

“Reading your sonnets? asked Orphu. Mahnmut closed the book. Howd you know? Have you taken up telepathy now that youve lost your eyes? Not yet, rumbled the Ionian. Orphus great crab shell was lashed...”

“I came only to report the news, to gather information. I didn't come to find out the truth.”

“All new news is old news happening to new people”

“Good news didn't seem real until you'd told at least a dozen friends.”

“Words used carelessly, as if they did not matter in any serious way, often allowed otherwise well-guarded truths to seep through.”

“You are the owner and keeper of your word. Distribute them wisely.”

“I found a word, and carefully placed it next to another. Soon I had a bridge and a pathway to a wonderful future.”